Frame for license-number plates



APPLICATION FILED NOV.2 192l- Patented Apr. 4, 1922.

INVENTORG ATTORNEY 1 E STAT? PATENT OFFICE.

; Number Plates, of which .VVVALEXANDEB B. ANDERSON ASND RAYMOND 11. wool), or SALT nakn'crrv, UT'AHi FRAME FOR LICENSE-NUMBER PLATEs.

'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we. ALEXANDER B. AN- nERsoNand RAYMOND L. VVoon, citizens of theUnited States, residing at Salt Lake City, in the county of Salt Lake and State of Utah, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Frames for License I the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to means to fasten and display license numbers on road vehicles, and has for its object to provide a convenient, economical and attractive frame for fastening the license number on vehicles such as automobiles, trucks, motorcycles. wagons and other vehicles.

These objects We accomplish with the de.

vice illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which similar letters ofreference indioate like parts-throughout the several views, and as described .in the specification forming a part" of this application; and pointed out in the appended claims.

In the'drawings in which we have shown a substantial embodiment of our invention,

Figure 1 is a view of the front end of an automobile with our'device in place thereon,

i and showing a license number secured on required in other places or States.

the automobile, as required in some States. Figure 2 is an elevation, of our device as used on the rear end of an automobile, as Figure 3 is a transverse section of the device, on line 3 3 of Figure 2. Y

The present invention is ,to provide a frame within which the metal license plate may be carried, and attractively displayed, and by which the said license number may be secured on the vehicle, "and easily removed for cleaning, or renewing for other years, and in such distinctive and attractive I manner as will bereadily noticed and easilyread. The frame A is made of any suitable materiaLpreferabIy metal whichwill not tarnish, or which is. painted, and which frame has a sightopening'alarge enough to display the license number and other 1ndices required. A portion of the back of the frame is cut out or so formed in con struction as to v.provide a recess, B, con formin in length and width with the license plate, to be carried in saidrecess, as a picture is carried in a frame, by the recess B Specification of Letters Pateiit.

atented 4, 1922.

Application filed November 2, 1921. Serial No. 512,203.

- being longerand wider than the sight opening a. As additional holding means the inner edges of said'fraine A have integrallugs 1) extending a short distance over the face side of the number plate or license late P. Some of said lugs are transversel' bored, with countersunk .holes 0, to receivet 1e short bolts D, similar to stove bolts, which are passed through the said holes 0 of the frame and through alined holes bored in the edge portion of said license or number plate P, and on some automobiles through the flat bar E of the automobile, with nuts screwed on said bolts D. We thus secure and fasten the license or number plate Pin the frame A, and'bothonthe rear end of the automobile I r where the numbers 'may be easily read. other shorter but similar bolts arefused 1n the opening d to fasten the license number plate in the frame A, and on some vehicles extended rounded corners and a sight opening of general rectangular shape but smaller than the outline of the frame and with portions of the front face of said frame extending within said sight opening and given a curved form similar to the rounded corners of said frame; perforated lugs integral with the edge of the frame also extending into said sight opening;- aportion of the rear face of said frame cut" away to form a plate receiving re'cessfand bolts passed through, i

the perforations in said lugs to fasten a number plate in said recess and said frame on an automobile.

2. In a device. of the class described the combination with a rectangular'frame having extended rounded corners and a sight opening of general rectangular shape but smaller than the outline of the frame; of

portions of the front face of said frameexr tending within said sight opening and given the v perforations in said lugs to fasten a a semi-circular form sinnlar to the rounded license number plate in Said recess and said 19 corners of said frame; pei'torated semiframe on an automobile.

' cireularlugs integral With the front face and In testimony whereof We have afiined {bin edge of said frame and also extending-into signatures: 1 said sight opening; a. portion of, the rear I j V face of said frame cut away to form a plate ALEXANDER B. ANDERSON. receiving recess; and bolts passed through RAYMOND L. \VOOD. 

